A brand new manufacturing of Noël Coward’s Non-public Lives can be introduced on Broadway within the 2026-2027 season, producers introduced as we speak.
Details about the director, casting, dates and theater can be introduced at a later date.
The manufacturing is being produced by Jeffrey Richards, Playful Productions (Matthew Byam Shaw, Nia Janis, Nick Salmon), Rebecca Gold and M/B/P Productions.
Alan Brodie, chair of the Noël Coward Basis stated, “We’re thrilled that this glowing new manufacturing of this iconic comedy can be coming again to Broadway in 2026/27. The Coward Property will work with carefully with the producers and artistic group and open their in depth archive to them in addition to offering help from its social and advertising and marketing group. All of the royalties acquired by the Coward Property on this manufacturing will go to the charitable Basis arrange by Coward’s accomplice Graham Payn and can be used to help academic and improvement tasks throughout the performing arts.”
Non-public Lives premiered on August 18, 1930 on the King’s Theatre in Edinburgh. The play debuted on Broadway on the Occasions Sq. Theatre on January 27, 1931.
Usually thought of Coward’s best comedy, the play follows Elyot and Amanda, as soon as married and now honeymooning with new spouses on the identical resort. The play has been produced on Broadway eight occasions. It has starred Coward himself, Gertrude Lawrence, Laurence Olivier, Tallulah Bankhead, Tammy Grimes (Tony Award, 1970), Brian Bedford, Maggie Smith (Tony Award-nomination, 1975), Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Collins, and Kim Cattrall. Considered one of its most acclaimed productions was the Tony Award profitable revival in 2002, which co-starred Lindsay Duncan (Tony Award-winner) and Alan Rickman (Tony Award-nomination) underneath the route of Howard Davies.
